Seems like every time life starts straightening itself out, something's gotta go and happen.

For me as a writer, it was understanding that we're so far behind in our way of dealing with death. We put someone in the ground, we bury them or we burn them, and then we're supposed to just move on and kind of get over it.

I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

I think people need to remember that a book isn't done after a few rewrites and a publisher isn't going to buy an 'undone' book so the hard part is making it a book that at least ten other people want to pay for to read.

When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.